Problem is not the "game industry", problem is with those that run things, which are not game developers. Those that run the big publishing houses, big hollywood studios, etc etc, they are BUSINESS PEOPLE, NOT CREATIVE PEOPLE. They dont give bananas about creativity, they want the fattest bank account they can get, and that means appeasing shareholders, which means keeping the company profits high, which means throwing out the same old BS that the ma$$es want. Some of these not-creative-business-people can even be called PSYCOPATHS! (Have i heard someone saying Jim Caparro?)
There are no more "game developers" running the "game industry"!
By year's end, Electronic Arts plans to release 26 new games, all but one of them a sequel, including the 16th version of N.H.L. Hockey, the 11th of the racing game Need for Speed and the 13th of the P.G.A. Tour golf game. The company also relies heavily on creating games based on movies like the James Bond and Lord of the Rings series, rather than developing original brands.
yeah, lets continue this remake craze forever and ever, lets have Final Fantasy XXVIII, Super Mario Rollecoaster Bubblegum, Splinter Cell Terrorists Forever, Unreal Championship Tour CVII. lets just keep building in the same old IP (intelectual property), never creating something really new and unique again. after all its what the masses want, the same old formula, the same old story, ever and ever afraid to try something new and unique. lets perpetuate this era of nonexistant creativity.
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Problem is not the "game industry", problem is with those that run things, which are not game developers. Those that run the big publishing houses, big hollywood studios, etc etc, they are BUSINESS PEOPLE, NOT CREATIVE PEOPLE. They dont give bananas about creativity, they want the fattest bank account they can get, and that means appeasing shareholders, which means keeping the company profits high, which means throwing out the same old BS that the ma$$es want. Some of these not-creative-business-people can even be called PSYCOPATHS! (Have i heard someone saying Jim Caparro?)
There are no more "game developers" running the "game industry"!
i wouldnt call a handfull of innovative games made by mostly independent developers "plenty". fortunately we are allowed to have different opinions.
BTW, a quote from a recently posted article from the: another article here, and a couple weeks old
yeah, lets continue this remake craze forever and ever, lets have Final Fantasy XXVIII, Super Mario Rollecoaster Bubblegum, Splinter Cell Terrorists Forever, Unreal Championship Tour CVII. lets just keep building in the same old IP (intelectual property), never creating something really new and unique again. after all its what the masses want, the same old formula, the same old story, ever and ever afraid to try something new and unique. lets perpetuate this era of nonexistant creativity.